WinterWarlock
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I used one of these stainless steel dry hop cylinders to dry hop in a keg: Stainless Steel 300 Micron Brewing Hopper Filter Homebrew Dry Hops Beer Tea Brew 688295882251 | eBay
The lid is super flimsy and does not screw on securely. Sure enough, the pos lid came off in the keg and dry hops clogged up everything. Not even a high pressure blast of CO2 through the beverage port could dislodge the hop material. So, the keg to keg transfer was a no go. I then had to autosiphon the batch to my serving keg using one of these autosiphone screens: Diptube or Racking Cane Filter Screen 300 Micron
That was a disaster as well. The beer was so foamy, the autosiphon was extremely ineffective at transferring. In the end I had to pour my beloved dry-hopped beer through a mesh screen into the goddamn serving keg. The batch is now oxidized and my hard work/time are wasted. Ideally I'd be able to install a diptupe filter/ mesh screen directly in the keg for dry hopping, like Scott Janish recommends on his site, however that is only possible if you have a straight diptube, which my ball lock cornys do not. Must be a torpedo keg thing, not sure what he's using but he's got it figured out. My next plan is to use a floating dip tube with one of these filter attachements:
https://www.morebeer.com/products/floating-dip-tube-filter-attachment.htmlSomething tells me that will get clogged too. Just came here to vent - I'm on a real losing streak, my last batch was infected, now this ********. After enough successful batches, you think nothing will ever go wrong, but it sure can. Now I'm seriously considering buying commercial beer today, the horror!
The lid is super flimsy and does not screw on securely. Sure enough, the pos lid came off in the keg and dry hops clogged up everything. Not even a high pressure blast of CO2 through the beverage port could dislodge the hop material. So, the keg to keg transfer was a no go. I then had to autosiphon the batch to my serving keg using one of these autosiphone screens: Diptube or Racking Cane Filter Screen 300 Micron
That was a disaster as well. The beer was so foamy, the autosiphon was extremely ineffective at transferring. In the end I had to pour my beloved dry-hopped beer through a mesh screen into the goddamn serving keg. The batch is now oxidized and my hard work/time are wasted. Ideally I'd be able to install a diptupe filter/ mesh screen directly in the keg for dry hopping, like Scott Janish recommends on his site, however that is only possible if you have a straight diptube, which my ball lock cornys do not. Must be a torpedo keg thing, not sure what he's using but he's got it figured out. My next plan is to use a floating dip tube with one of these filter attachements:
https://www.morebeer.com/products/floating-dip-tube-filter-attachment.htmlSomething tells me that will get clogged too. Just came here to vent - I'm on a real losing streak, my last batch was infected, now this ********. After enough successful batches, you think nothing will ever go wrong, but it sure can. Now I'm seriously considering buying commercial beer today, the horror!
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